Book Review Symposium:IP Debates in South Asia:Law, Development and Practice

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This was an open-for-all Book Review Symposium on "Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)". Edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, the book is one of the first solid cohesive attempt to look at IP narratives from South Asia.

The book was dedicated towards Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer.
Swaraj Barooah is the Senior Expert at SpicyIP, and an IP Policy Consultant. He has a chapter in this book: "Intellectual Property and Social Justice: Remembering the Contributions of Prof Shamnad Basheer". You can find the pre print version of this chapter here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

Praharsh Gour, Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP, discusses the different parts of the book with the panellists Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal, and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang.

Shama Mahajan is an LLM candidate at NUS Singapore. She reviews Part 1 of the book "IP History and Development". Starting from the title of the book, she emphasises on the importance of an Asian perspective. Broadly, the two themes she identifies and discusses include the "de-colonial lens" and "hypothesis- premise misunderstanding".

Akshat Agrawal: Founder and Counsel at AASA Chambers. He reviews Part 2 of the book "Developments in South Asia". He points out to the argumentative and informative nature of this part. The broad theme he identifies include how the authors show the dissonance between the values underlying TRIPS and their own cultural consciousness in terms of the difference in thinking.

Ishupal Singh Kang: Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He reviews Part 3 of the book "Institutions, Courts and Practices". He identifies the issues ranging from reflection on issue of gender disparity , access to fundamental resources like learning material to perplexities of complying with international patent standards. He also points out that the book ends with self reflective questions on politics of IP expertise.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:07- A Dedication to Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer
13:27- Introduction to the speakers
15:34 - Title of the book
19:21- Review of Part 1: "IP History and Development"
36:54 - Review of Part 2 : "Developments in South Asia"
55:00 - Review of Part 3: "Institutions, Courts and Practice"
01:19:16 - Questions and Discussion
01:56:44 - Concluding remarks

Reading materials:
1. Shamnad Basheer,India's Tryst with Trips: The Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...
2. Kung Chung Liu, IP Laws and Major Asian Economies
3. SpicyIP TV, Let's IPsa Loquitur, The Geographical Indication Hurdles That We Need to Talk About: ft Niharika Salar,    • The Geographical Indication Hurdles That W...  
4. Lateef Mtima & Steven D. Jamar, A Social Justice Perspective on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...
5. Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa, Assetization :Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite...
6.Victor Roy, Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines ;Victor Roy https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5...
7. Shamnad Basheer, Obsessing on Newness: The Death of Patents?https://spicyip.com/2018/01/obsessing...
8. Ntina Tzouvala , On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law, https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariff...
9. Amaka Vanni , Patent Games in the Global South:Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria
10. Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil
11. Mario Biagioli, Weighing Intellectual Property: Can We Balance the Social Costs and Benefits of Patenting?, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...
12. Hyo Yoon Kang, Patents as Assets: Intellectual Property Rights as Market Subjects and Objects
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite...
13. Lilly Irani, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India